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But there is more to turning a potentially dry subject matter into entertainment than just reeling off a series of classroom antics. So, what makes a professor an object of affection for students?

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Credit for Fun | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

But there is more to turning a potentially dry subject matter into entertainment than just reeling off a series of classroom antics. So, what makes a professor an object of affection for students?

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Credit for Fun | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

Elsewhere, the value of marriage may be incalculable, but in the United Arab Emirates, men feel that it is not worth $50,000. Women often demand sums of that size in the Emirates, where dowries are supplied by grooms rather than by brides. Young women in this Persian Gulf federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Irreconcilable Differences; Israel An Eye For An Eye: | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

The August People are 16 members of the Winderman family, gathering on some 50 acres of prime land in the last full month of summer. No. 17 is on the way: Ellen, married into the clan, is pregnant. What she first sees is a family bound by ritual and affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable Help the Poor Struggler | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

Oil Executive C.H. MURPHY JR. at the A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University in New Orleans: " 'Commencement,' I judge, derives from the assumption that today's watershed in your lives marks the beginning of experience. It simply isn't so. Life's most meaningful experiences are those of early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Prospects, Old Values | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

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